Word: lives
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...comfort, and he could not live...
...taught his college friends especially, that it is possible to live amongst temptation and conquer it. He has emphasized the fact that scholarship and politeness suit well together, and that culture and piety have no antagonisms. He has refuted the too commonly accepted college opinion that religion and stupidity are boon helpmeets, by coupling the most brilliant scholarship with a sincere piety. Is not this a most worthy record? Has not his life done something for the world...
...part with all the dear ones at home had come. That morning his grandmamma had taken him apart and had said, "You're getting a big boy now, Henry, and it is necessary that you go out into the world to seek your fortune. You cannot expect to live in this forest all your days, you know. But before you go let me give you this magic scrap of paper, which will carry you safely even to the very cave of the giant Bowsir, whom you will remember to treat with great respect, for he loves polite little boys...
...glad to see that the Harvard Union is starting out again so energetically and promisingly. Last year was a poor one for the Union. The attendance, even on occasions when the questions under discussion were live and absorbing, was not calculated to inspire the disputants to any very great exertions. Most noticeable, too, was the almost entire lack of enthusiasm on the part of those who were not leading disputants. Occasionally there would be a good five-minute speech from the house. But such speeches were very few and far between. Now, it was entirely foreign to the original intention...
...delivered, the rush, the struggle, the VICTORY! They call forth our deep regret and unaffected tears. The enthusiastic cheers, the singing of 'Auld Lang Syne,' each student grasping a brother's hand, - all, all have passed away, and will soon be buried with the football beneath the sod, to live hereafter only as a dream in our memories and in the College annals. Brothers, pardon my emotion, and if I have kept you already too long, pardon me this also. On such an occasion as this but few words can be spoken, but those must be spoken, for they...